3 Steps to Internet Marketing Success
These 3 steps to internet marketing success have been done by many people (myself included) and there is no reason you can’t join the parade of people making extra money online. Will you be earning thousands of dollars next month? No probably not, but by taking these three steps you will have a foundation of knowledge that you will be able to use over and over again until you start making money online.
Step 1: You Need to Have a Web Presence in Order to Make Money Online
Does this mean you have to have a website? No, but it helps. Does this mean you have to send out a million emails to people you don’t know? No. Does this mean you have to make expensive investments in software and web programming books? No.
What Is a Web PRESENCE?
On the other hand, you DO have to have a PRESENCE on the web. What is a web presence? A presence can be a web page, a web site, a social networking account, or even just an email address. The point is in order to make money online you have to actually BE online in a way that OTHERS can reach you. Surfing the web is not enough – you actually have to have a HOME where people can interact with you or your content / products. So your first steps to internet marketing success must involve developing your presence… WHATEVER YOU MAKE IT OUT TO BE. The best news here is that creating a web presence itself is free, although odds are eventually you’ll want bigger more commercial sites which cost a little. No matter, we loving working with free sites – I’ve been making money with them for years, so you can too. With just ONE book ($27) I can show you how to create 5 web presences for ZERO dollars and have your first income stream already setup ready to start earning.
With that one book you’ll have enough information to start earning right away but odds are you’ll want to earn more than just a few dollars online. Given it doesn’t cost alot to get up the learning curve most people are willing to take the next steps.
Step 2: Creating and Distributing Your Own E-Products
The next steps to internet marketing success involve creating and selling your own products online. These products can be in the form of tangible products such as t-shirts or crafts or they can also be e-products such as photographs, e-books and tutorials/info products. Writing a ebook without question was one of the best things I ever did online. It wasn’t necessarily the spectacular money I made with the ebook, but the true LEARNING experience of learning all the steps to successfully sell (and protect) a digital eproduct of my own creation. Imagine if just a month or two from now you knew how to:
- Research a topic you knew little about
- Write an ebook about the topic
- License the sale of the product with thousands of eager affiliates
- Securely deliver the ebook protected from piracy
Do you think that knowledge would be worth your time? I sure did. As I said, learning how to sell your own products online opened a whole new world of opportunity for me, as it can for you. Learning how to deliver online content can also help you in another way as you take the steps to internet marketing success: it will help you tremendously in step 3.
Step 3: Developing Lists of Buyers
The last of the critical steps to internet marketing success is developing lists of buyers. If you haven’t clued into this already, each of the prior steps has been built with the purpose of getting you to this point – where you are making lists and casually interacting with them and occasionally marketing to them. Building and expanding lists is the key to long term success online, and when combined with inexpensive automated email management software your success becomes greater. Automation is the key to freeing up your time to build other lines of business or to do other things you enjoy.
These are the 3 steps to internet marketing success which have helped me achieve more than I ever expected online. There is no reason you can’t do the same. With less than $100 you can learn and do everything I did to start making money online.